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"A Sketch of the Past" is an autobiographical essay written by Virginia Woolf in 1939. It was written as a break from writing her biography of Roger Fry, English artist and critic, and fellow member of the Bloomsbury Group.
- Autobiographical essay
- Virginia Woolf
- 1939
15. Aug. 2020 · She shows how in the non-fiction Woolf moves between essays and sketches as the two poles within which her historical project comes to be defined, the essay as the embodiment of the modernist fragment, the sketch as a way of recovering the past through narrative form.
A Sketch of the Past. memoir by Woolf. Learn about this topic in these articles: discussed in biography. In Virginia Woolf: Late work. …her own childhood with “A Sketch of the Past,” a memoir about her mixed feelings toward her parents and her past and about memoir writing itself.
3. Feb. 2018 · Drawing on recent work on “emotional geographies” in the fields of geography and cultural studies, this chapter offers an account of rooms, memory and affect in Woolf’s unfinished memoir “A Sketch of the Past.” Zink reads Woolf’s memoir-writing in the troubled context of the late 1930s and early 1940s, a time when memory ...
- Suzana Zink
- 2018
1. Juni 2020 · Close reading & analysis of Woolf’s first memory, recollected in her autobiographical life writing ‘A Sketch of the Past’ (1939), to show how she writes about consciousness and multiple...
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- Dr Octavia Cox
Virginia Woolf’s notion of memory, outlined in her memoir “A Sketch of the Past”, destabilises conventional conceptions of the relation between past and present. For Woolf, memory escapes linear time: past and presence no longer follow each other chronologically. Paradoxically, remembered scenes render the past present.
Representing the self in a filigree of ontological, epistemological and organizational principles of identity, “A Sketch of the Past” can be read as a geography of the possible where the self is represented by means of several technologies of power and several trajectories, establishing a dynamic relationship between author, text and reader.
